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KALEIDOSCOPE: LUCKNOW BETWEEN PAST AND NOW
Cultures are never frozen in time, they keep moving, keep evolving.Filmmaker and writer Sharad Raj reflects on Lucknow as a city negotiating nostalgia, feudal memory, and post...
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As cancer treatment continues to rely on averages and probabilities, a breakthrough approach using live tumor profiling promises to personalise therapy, reduce suffering from ...
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In this intimate column, Vinta Nanda writes about The Chai Queens, its emotional homecoming to Mumbai, and how theatre opens space for queer love, family silences, and difficu...
Read MoreTRENDING: THE QUIET POWER OF COSTUMES
Costume designer Pia Benegal reflects on why her craft remains invisible, how clothes shape character and narrative, and why authenticity, discipline, and collaboration matter...
Read MoreRETROSCOPE: REMEMBERING RAY’S IMMORTAL…APU!
On the late, legendary Soumitra Chatterjee’s 91st birthday on January 19th Monojit Lahiri pays homage to the remarkable actor, author, poet, dramatist, translator and pa...
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Sharad Raj examines the New Year’s Eve gig workers’ strike to expose how neo-capitalism, privatisation, and algorithm-driven platforms have created a vast undercla...
Read MorePOWERFUL PEOPLE: A BEAUTIFUL MIND
Veenapani Chawla’s chance encounter with Naseeruddin Shah culminated in the birth of the Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre and Research in Puducherry, famed for its audac...
Read MoreTHOUGHT FACTORY: LISTENING IS THE NEW LOOKING
For years, we were trained to look, writes Vinta Nanda. Now, we are learning to listen—attentively, and without interruption—as India’s growing podcast cultu...
Read MoreTHOUGHT FACTORY: PREGNANT RECALLS!
Writer Aparajita Krishna weaves memory, cinema, politics, motherhood and moral courage into interlinked recalls, moving from Shyam Benegal’s Yatra to Badhaai Ho, and liv...
Read MoreTRENDING: AFTER ZUBEEN, A CULTURE REORGANISES ITSELF
Utpal Datta reflects on Assamese culture after Zubeen Garg, tracing legacy, rupture, and renewal across music, cinema, and stage, asking not who replaces him, but how creativi...
Read MoreSEVEN DAYS OF EXTRAORDINARY CINEMA
The Waterfront Indie Film Festival (WIFF) Mumbai returns for its second edition from 30 ...
November 13 2026ACTING, LYING, AND THE TRUTH
Monojit Lahiri examines whether acting is truly a form of lying, tracing the provocative...
November 12 2026MAHARASHTRA’S ENDURING STATE THEATRE COMPETITION
The 65th edition of Maharashtra State Drama Competition by Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe examine...
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